Jabez McClelland

Jabez McClelland is the Group Leader of the CNST Electron Physics Group. He received a B.A. in Physics and Music from Wesleyan University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. During his graduate studies he spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. Jabez came to NIST as a postdoctoral research associate in the Electron Physics Group, where he subsequently served as a research physicist, and most recently as the Group Leader. Jabez’s research at NIST has covered a number of topics ranging from spin-polarized low-energy electron scattering from laser excited atoms, to laser focused atomic deposition, metastable-atom lithography, and deterministic single-atom sources. He has over 90 publications, including several in high-profile journals such as Science and Physical Review Letters. He is a frequent invited speaker at international meetings, and is considered one of the world experts on atom optics. Jabez holds four patents, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, has received the Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Science, and has been awarded both Silver and Gold Medals from the Department of Commerce. He currently leads projects on focused ion beam sources based on magneto-optically trapped atoms, laser cooling of novel atomic species, and atom-based metrology.

Selected Programs/Projects

• Novel Sources for Focused-ion Beams
• Nanoparticle Tracking for Fluidic Self Assembly

Selected Publications

• Magneto-Optical-Trap-Based, High Brightness Ion Source for Use as a Nanoscale Probe, J.L. Hanssen, S.B. Hill, J. Orloff and J.J. McClelland, Nanoletters 8(9), 2844-2850 (2008).
  
• Laser Cooling Without Repumping: A Magneto-Optical Trap for Erbium Atoms, J. J. McClelland and J. L. Hanssen, Physical Review Letters 96(14), 143005-1-143005-4 (2006).
• Atoms on Demand: A Fast, Deterministic, Source of Single Cr Atoms, S. B. Hill and J. J. McClelland, Applied Physics Letters 82(18), 3128-3130 (2003).
• Magneto-Optical Trapping of Chromium Atoms, C. C. Bradley, J. J. McClelland, W. R. Anderson, and R. J. Celotta, Physical Review A 61(053407)(2000).
• Microlithography by Using Neutral Metastable Atoms and Self-Assembled Monolayers, K. K. Berggren, A. Bard, J. L. Wilbur, J. D. Gillaspy, A. G. Helg, J. J. McClelland, S. L. Rolston, W. D. Phillips, M. Prentiss, and G. M. Whitesides, Science 269, 1255-1257 (1995).
• Laser Focused Atomic Deposition, J. J. McClelland, R. E. Scholten, E. C. Palm, and R. J. Celotta, Science 262, 877-880 (1993).